Post by mhbruin on Nov 19, 2021 8:56:03 GMT -8
US Vaccine Data - We Have Now Administered 448 Million Shots (Population 333 Million)
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America Finally Gets a Woman President
US Vice-President Kamala Harris will become the first woman to briefly be given presidential powers as Joe Biden undergoes his regular health check.
President Biden will transfer power to Ms Harris for the period in which he is placed under anaesthesia for a routine colonoscopy on Friday.
The medical examination will be Mr Biden's first as president and comes on the eve of his 79th birthday.
Ms Harris will temporarily take control of the US military and nuclear weapons.
"The vice-president will work from her office in the West Wing during this time," White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said in a statement.
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Everyone Wants Into the Healthcare Game
CVS, one of the largest pharmacy chains in the US, is planning to close 900 shops over the next three years.
That represents nearly a tenth of its outlets.
Its remaining stores, which sell a wide range of consumer goods and snack foods, will be beefed up to offer more in-person health services.
Through the pandemic, Americans have grown increasingly accustomed to accessing advice, testing and vaccinations at their local drugstore.
CVS, along with other pharmacy chains, have played a leading part in rolling out Covid-19 vaccines in the US, in particular.
I Don't See Why They Couldn't Beef Up Health Services and Still Sell Me My Mouthwash.
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Where's Jimmy?
FBI agents have searched a plot of land in the US state of New Jersey after a deathbed confession renewed hope of solving union boss Jimmy Hoffa's disappearance 50 years ago.
For decades, Hoffa was one of America's most powerful labour organisers.
But in 1975 he suddenly disappeared, and his body has never been recovered.
Investigators recently received a tip that a former worker on a landfill site in Jersey City had said that his father told him he had buried Hoffa's body.
His disappearance had long been linked with the American Mafia, with whom Hoffa had a turbulent relationship.
According to the New York Times, landfill worker Frank Cappola, who died in March 2020, told a friend that his father had confessed to him that he had been ordered by a gang of unidentified men to bury Hoffa's body underground in a steel drum.
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Where's Peng?
Serena Williams says the case of Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai "must be investigated" and urged people "not to stay silent" about her welfare.
Peng, 35, has not been heard from since she made sexual assault allegations against a leading Chinese government official two weeks ago.
Chinese state media has released an email attributed to Peng, but doubt has been cast about its authenticity.
Where's Waldo? Where in the World is Carmen San Diego? Do You Know the Way to San Jose?
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Austria Goes FULL Mandate
Days after Austria imposed a lockdown on the unvaccinated, it has announced a full national Covid-19 lockdown starting on Monday.
Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg said it would last a maximum of 20 days and there would be a legal requirement to get vaccinated from 1 February 2022.
He was responding to record case numbers and one of the lowest vaccination levels in Western Europe.
Many other European countries are imposing restrictions as cases rise.
"We don't want a fifth wave," said Mr Schallenberg after meeting the governors of Austria's nine provinces at a resort in the west of the country.
For a long time, there had been a consensus over avoiding mandatory vaccinations, the chancellor said.
However, too many people had been incited not to get the jab, because of "too many political forces, flimsy vaccination opponents and fake news", he added. The measures are yet to be finalised.
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The Prosecution Must Like Their Case
A defense attorney for one of the three White men accused of chasing and killing Black jogger Ahmaud Arbery asked prosecutors for a plea deal and was declined, an attorney for Arbery's mother told CNN.
William "Roddie" Bryan Jr.'s lawyer "asked for a plea deal before resting their case. Prosecutors declined any plea offer," Lee Merritt, an attorney for Wanda Cooper-Jones, said Friday.
The district attorney's office that is prosecuting the case declined to comment about being approached about a plea deal.
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When Will Mickey Mouse Be Banned From CPAC?
Without an official announcement or fanfare, US Disney parks are including a Black Santa Claus in Christmas celebrations this year for the first time in the company's 66-year theme park history.
At both Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California, and Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, a Black Santa has been spotted at certain meet-and-greets and at after-hours Christmas parties.
A Disney spokesperson told CNN that Santa Claus is represented in various ways in local and regional communities and around the world -- and in that spirit, Santa Claus will reflect the diversity of surrounding communities at both Disneyland Resort and Walt Disney World Resort.
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No Anti-Fascists With Guns Were Spotted
A man seen carrying an AR-15 rifle outside the courthouse in Kenosha, Wisconsin, where a jury is deliberating in the double homicide trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, identified himself as a former police officer in Ferguson, Missouri.
The man, Jesse Kline, who was first identified by a Twitter user known as Danesh and whose identity was later confirmed by the Chicago Tribune, told the crowd that he is a former officer in Ferguson, Missouri, which was rocked by weeks of protests after police killed Michael Brown in 2014.
Here's Hoping He's Not There to Shoot Protestors
As jury deliberations dragged into a third full day, Kyle Rittenhouse’s attorney Mark Richards came into the courtroom for a change of scenery.
He has spent much of his time since closing arguments on a different floor of the stately Kenosha County Courthouse waiting for a sign of where jurors were in their discussion. Considered one of the best criminal defense attorneys in Wisconsin, he had never had a jury take longer than 18 hours to make a decision.
The Rittenhouse jury has deliberated for 23 hours so far and will resume its work Friday morning.
Reporters asked Richards how he was feeling. His answer was as honest as it was telling. “Worse than I was yesterday,” he said.
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I Wish I Were Done With Bad News COVID Stories
But as we approach next week’s Thanksgiving holiday, we begin with a story that’s surprisingly gotten lost in all of those political developments: U.S. Covid cases are once again on the rise.
It comes as the United States continues to average approximately 1,000 Covid-19 deaths a day, as Dr. Anthony Fauci warns that hospitalizations are rising among the fully vaccinated and as European countries — which have been precursors to spikes in U.S. cases — are reimposing lockdowns or considering them.
Germany has entered a “nationwide state of emergency” because of surging coronavirus infections, the head of the country's disease control agency said Friday.
Lothar Wieler, the head of the Robert Koch Institute, said regular medical care cannot be guaranteed anymore in some parts of the country because hospitals and intensive care wards are overstretched.
The German air force confirmed a report by daily Bild that it was preparing to help transfer patients to clinics with free beds.
“All of Germany is one big outbreak,” Wieler told reporters in Berlin. “This is a nationwide state of emergency. We need to pull the emergency brake.”spending bill and President Biden signing the bipartisan infrastructure bill into law.
How Immune Are We?
Here are the basic numbers: The U.S. has fully vaccinated 59 percent of the country and recorded enough cases to account for 14 percent of the population. (Though, given limited testing, those case numbers almost certainly underestimate true infections.) What we don’t know is how to put these two numbers together, says Elizabeth Halloran, an epidemiologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. What percentage of Americans have immunity against the coronavirus—from vaccines or infection or both?
This is the key number that will determine the strength of our immunity wall this winter, but it’s impossible to pin down with the data we have. This uncertainty matters because even a small percentage difference in overall immunity translates to a large number of susceptible people. For example, an additional 5 percent of Americans without immunity is 16.5 million people, and 16.5 million additional infections could mean hundreds of thousands more hospitalizations. Because unvaccinated people tend to cluster geographically and because many hospital intensive-care units run close to capacity even in non-pandemic times, it doesn’t take very many sick patients to overwhelm a local health-care system.
If You Haven't Boosted, What Are You Waiting For?
The Food and Drug Administration on Friday authorized booster doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines for everyone 18 and older who is already considered fully vaccinated, teeing up many Americans to gain extra protection ahead of a possible winter surge in cases.
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It Was a Tale Told By An Idiot, Full of Sound and Fury Signifying Nothing
Last night, Americans were treated to the longest lunar eclipse in 500 years. Watching it required a good deal of patience as the orb floated slowly across the sky, apparently unchanging from moment to moment. However, eventually, there was real progress and beauty, as the full moon trimmed down to a tiny fingernail sliver, its shaded face barely visible in reflected Earth-light, then brightened against the pitch black of the sky before being dimmed by the rising sun.
And at every stage, it was more lively, more interesting, and infinitely more attractive than the eight-hour-plus speech that GOP leader Kevin McCarthy delivered on the House floor overnight to delay the final House vote on the Build Back Better legislation.
McCarthy added he could wait for Democrats to stop talking. "Keep going," Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, yelled back. "No one is listening."
Just Because It Is So Good
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Finally...
House Democrats passed their roughly $1.75 trillion social and climate spending package on Friday morning, even as Republicans successfully delayed a final vote.
The Senate Better Hurry If they Want President Harris to Sign It
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I Don't Know Whether to Call Kennedy "Senator" or "Obergruppenführer"
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Remember This? The Oil Companies Hope You Don't
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It's Like a Scene From a Movie
An unvaccinated woman awoke from a lengthy coma she entered after contracting COVID-19 on the same day her family was set to terminate her life support.
Bettina Lerman, 69, had been on a ventilator at Maine Medical Center in Portland for more than a month when her son Andrew Lerman and other relatives made the heartbreaking decision. The family had been told she’d suffered “irreversible damage” from the disease, reported CNN.
“They told us, ‘Your mother is never going to wake up,’” Andrew Lerman told The Washington Post on Thursday. “It was the end of the line.”
Family members planned a funeral and scheduled the shutdown of life support on Oct. 29.
With just hours to go, a doctor called Lerman with the stunning news his mom had woken up.
Bettina Then Said, "You Were About to Do What???" (Not Really)
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As An Old Guy, I Want More Roads, Fewer Bike Lanes
The U.S. Transportation Department said Friday it was awarding nearly $1 billion in infrastructure grants as the Biden administration prepares to dramatically boost funding on the nation's roads, bridges, rail, transit and other projects.
The grants under the Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity (RAISE) program are going to 90 projects in 47 states, the District of Columbia and Guam, to rebuild roads and add rail lines -- but also create new green space, new trails, bike lanes and safer streets for pedestrians.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said the department had received a "a ten-to-one ratio of requests to available dollars" for the grants.
Seattle will receive $20 million to reconstruct a 1.1-mile road segment and will also add a bike lane. Washington County, Oregon will receive $12.2 million for a 15-mile trail.
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Doses Administered 7-Day Average | Number of People Receiving 1 or More Doses | Number of People Fully Vaccinated | New Cases 7-Day Average | Deaths 7-Day Average | |
| Nov 19 | 1,952,717 | 229,291,004 | 195,920,566 | ||
| Nov 18 | 1,870,564 | 228,570,531 | 195,713,107 | 94,260 | 1,069 |
| Nov 17 | 1,811,047 | 228,175,638 | 195,612,365 | 88,482 | 1,032 |
| Nov 16 | 1,608,906 | 227,691,941 | 195,435,688 | 85,944 | 1,028 |
| Nov 15 | 1,582,519 | 227,133,617 | 195,275,904 | 83,671 | 1,029 |
| Nov 14 | 1,375,998 | 226,607,653 | 195,120,470 | 80,823 | 1,043 |
| Nov 13 | 1,370,279 | 226,157,226 | 194,951,106 | 80,590 | 1,049 |
| Nov 12 | 1,335,066 | 225,606,197 | 194,747,839 | 78,552 | 1,038 |
| Nov 11 | No Data | 73,218 | 999 | ||
| Nov 10 | 1,316,294 | 224,660,453 | 194,382,921 | 76,458 | 1,051 |
| Nov 9 | 1,316,228 | 224,257,467 | 194,168,611 | 74,584 | 1,078 |
| Nov 8 | 1,300,925 | 223,944,369 | 194,001,108 | 73,312 | 1,078 |
| Nov 7 | 1,265,361 | 223,629,671 | 193,832,584 | 71,867 | 1,068 |
| Nov 6 | 1,254,975 | 223,245,121 | 193,627,929 | 71,327 | 1,079 |
| Nov 5 | 1,283,684 | 222,902,939 | 193,425,862 | 71,517 | 1,071 |
| Nov 4 | 1,188,564 | 222,591,394 | 193,227,813 | 71,241 | 1,102 |
| Nov 3 | 1,068,184 | 222,268,786 | 192,931,486 | 70,431 | 1,109 |
| Nov 2 | 1,112,624 | 221,961,370 | 192,726,406 | 71,029 | 1,130 |
| Nov 1 | 1,243,313 | 221,760,691 | 192,586,927 | 74,798 | 1,190 |
| Oct 31 | 1,203,517 | 221,520,153 | 192,453,500 | 71,207 | 1,151 |
| Oct 30 | 1,114,502 | 221,221,467 | 192,244,927 | 71,690 | 1,156 |
| Oct 29 | 1,008,247 | 220,860,887* | 191,997,869 | 69,197 | 1,104 |
| Oct 28 | 1,086,543 | 221,348,530 | 191,242,432 | 68,177 | 1,086 |
| Oct 27 | 959,348 | 220,936,118 | 190,990,750 | 68,792 | 1,129 |
| Oct 26 | 796,148 | 220,648,845 | 190,793,100 | 68,151 | 1,098 |
| Oct 25 | 786,321 | 220,519,217 | 190,699,790 | 65,953 | 1,159 |
| Oct 24 | 768,503 | 220,351,217 | 190,578,704 | 59,129 | 1,122 |
| Oct 23 | 772,744 | 220,145,796 | 190,402,262 | 64,096 | 1,188 |
| Oct 22 | 770,307 | 219,900,525 | 190,179,553 | 70,153 | 1,277 |
| Oct 21 | 795,156 | 219,624,445 | 189,924,447 | 71,550 | 1,257 |
| Oct 20 | 831,213 | 219,381,466 | 189,709,710 | 73,966 | 1,257 |
| Feb 16 | 1,716,311 | 39,670,551 | 15,015,434 | 78,292 |
| At Least One Dose | Fully Vaccinated | |
| % of Total Population | 69.1% | 59.0% |
| % of Population 12+ | 80.0% | 69.1% |
| % of Population 18+ | 81.9% | 70.8% |
| % of Population 65+ | 99.7% | 86.2% |
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America Finally Gets a Woman President
US Vice-President Kamala Harris will become the first woman to briefly be given presidential powers as Joe Biden undergoes his regular health check.
President Biden will transfer power to Ms Harris for the period in which he is placed under anaesthesia for a routine colonoscopy on Friday.
The medical examination will be Mr Biden's first as president and comes on the eve of his 79th birthday.
Ms Harris will temporarily take control of the US military and nuclear weapons.
"The vice-president will work from her office in the West Wing during this time," White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said in a statement.
-------------
Everyone Wants Into the Healthcare Game
CVS, one of the largest pharmacy chains in the US, is planning to close 900 shops over the next three years.
That represents nearly a tenth of its outlets.
Its remaining stores, which sell a wide range of consumer goods and snack foods, will be beefed up to offer more in-person health services.
Through the pandemic, Americans have grown increasingly accustomed to accessing advice, testing and vaccinations at their local drugstore.
CVS, along with other pharmacy chains, have played a leading part in rolling out Covid-19 vaccines in the US, in particular.
I Don't See Why They Couldn't Beef Up Health Services and Still Sell Me My Mouthwash.
-------------
Where's Jimmy?
FBI agents have searched a plot of land in the US state of New Jersey after a deathbed confession renewed hope of solving union boss Jimmy Hoffa's disappearance 50 years ago.
For decades, Hoffa was one of America's most powerful labour organisers.
But in 1975 he suddenly disappeared, and his body has never been recovered.
Investigators recently received a tip that a former worker on a landfill site in Jersey City had said that his father told him he had buried Hoffa's body.
His disappearance had long been linked with the American Mafia, with whom Hoffa had a turbulent relationship.
According to the New York Times, landfill worker Frank Cappola, who died in March 2020, told a friend that his father had confessed to him that he had been ordered by a gang of unidentified men to bury Hoffa's body underground in a steel drum.
-------------
Where's Peng?
Serena Williams says the case of Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai "must be investigated" and urged people "not to stay silent" about her welfare.
Peng, 35, has not been heard from since she made sexual assault allegations against a leading Chinese government official two weeks ago.
Chinese state media has released an email attributed to Peng, but doubt has been cast about its authenticity.
Where's Waldo? Where in the World is Carmen San Diego? Do You Know the Way to San Jose?
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Austria Goes FULL Mandate
Days after Austria imposed a lockdown on the unvaccinated, it has announced a full national Covid-19 lockdown starting on Monday.
Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg said it would last a maximum of 20 days and there would be a legal requirement to get vaccinated from 1 February 2022.
He was responding to record case numbers and one of the lowest vaccination levels in Western Europe.
Many other European countries are imposing restrictions as cases rise.
"We don't want a fifth wave," said Mr Schallenberg after meeting the governors of Austria's nine provinces at a resort in the west of the country.
For a long time, there had been a consensus over avoiding mandatory vaccinations, the chancellor said.
However, too many people had been incited not to get the jab, because of "too many political forces, flimsy vaccination opponents and fake news", he added. The measures are yet to be finalised.
-------------
The Prosecution Must Like Their Case
A defense attorney for one of the three White men accused of chasing and killing Black jogger Ahmaud Arbery asked prosecutors for a plea deal and was declined, an attorney for Arbery's mother told CNN.
William "Roddie" Bryan Jr.'s lawyer "asked for a plea deal before resting their case. Prosecutors declined any plea offer," Lee Merritt, an attorney for Wanda Cooper-Jones, said Friday.
The district attorney's office that is prosecuting the case declined to comment about being approached about a plea deal.
-------------
When Will Mickey Mouse Be Banned From CPAC?
Without an official announcement or fanfare, US Disney parks are including a Black Santa Claus in Christmas celebrations this year for the first time in the company's 66-year theme park history.
At both Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California, and Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, a Black Santa has been spotted at certain meet-and-greets and at after-hours Christmas parties.
A Disney spokesperson told CNN that Santa Claus is represented in various ways in local and regional communities and around the world -- and in that spirit, Santa Claus will reflect the diversity of surrounding communities at both Disneyland Resort and Walt Disney World Resort.
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No Anti-Fascists With Guns Were Spotted
A man seen carrying an AR-15 rifle outside the courthouse in Kenosha, Wisconsin, where a jury is deliberating in the double homicide trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, identified himself as a former police officer in Ferguson, Missouri.
The man, Jesse Kline, who was first identified by a Twitter user known as Danesh and whose identity was later confirmed by the Chicago Tribune, told the crowd that he is a former officer in Ferguson, Missouri, which was rocked by weeks of protests after police killed Michael Brown in 2014.
Here's Hoping He's Not There to Shoot Protestors
As jury deliberations dragged into a third full day, Kyle Rittenhouse’s attorney Mark Richards came into the courtroom for a change of scenery.
He has spent much of his time since closing arguments on a different floor of the stately Kenosha County Courthouse waiting for a sign of where jurors were in their discussion. Considered one of the best criminal defense attorneys in Wisconsin, he had never had a jury take longer than 18 hours to make a decision.
The Rittenhouse jury has deliberated for 23 hours so far and will resume its work Friday morning.
Reporters asked Richards how he was feeling. His answer was as honest as it was telling. “Worse than I was yesterday,” he said.
-------------
I Wish I Were Done With Bad News COVID Stories
But as we approach next week’s Thanksgiving holiday, we begin with a story that’s surprisingly gotten lost in all of those political developments: U.S. Covid cases are once again on the rise.
It comes as the United States continues to average approximately 1,000 Covid-19 deaths a day, as Dr. Anthony Fauci warns that hospitalizations are rising among the fully vaccinated and as European countries — which have been precursors to spikes in U.S. cases — are reimposing lockdowns or considering them.
Germany has entered a “nationwide state of emergency” because of surging coronavirus infections, the head of the country's disease control agency said Friday.
Lothar Wieler, the head of the Robert Koch Institute, said regular medical care cannot be guaranteed anymore in some parts of the country because hospitals and intensive care wards are overstretched.
The German air force confirmed a report by daily Bild that it was preparing to help transfer patients to clinics with free beds.
“All of Germany is one big outbreak,” Wieler told reporters in Berlin. “This is a nationwide state of emergency. We need to pull the emergency brake.”spending bill and President Biden signing the bipartisan infrastructure bill into law.
How Immune Are We?
Here are the basic numbers: The U.S. has fully vaccinated 59 percent of the country and recorded enough cases to account for 14 percent of the population. (Though, given limited testing, those case numbers almost certainly underestimate true infections.) What we don’t know is how to put these two numbers together, says Elizabeth Halloran, an epidemiologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. What percentage of Americans have immunity against the coronavirus—from vaccines or infection or both?
This is the key number that will determine the strength of our immunity wall this winter, but it’s impossible to pin down with the data we have. This uncertainty matters because even a small percentage difference in overall immunity translates to a large number of susceptible people. For example, an additional 5 percent of Americans without immunity is 16.5 million people, and 16.5 million additional infections could mean hundreds of thousands more hospitalizations. Because unvaccinated people tend to cluster geographically and because many hospital intensive-care units run close to capacity even in non-pandemic times, it doesn’t take very many sick patients to overwhelm a local health-care system.
If You Haven't Boosted, What Are You Waiting For?
The Food and Drug Administration on Friday authorized booster doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines for everyone 18 and older who is already considered fully vaccinated, teeing up many Americans to gain extra protection ahead of a possible winter surge in cases.
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It Was a Tale Told By An Idiot, Full of Sound and Fury Signifying Nothing
Last night, Americans were treated to the longest lunar eclipse in 500 years. Watching it required a good deal of patience as the orb floated slowly across the sky, apparently unchanging from moment to moment. However, eventually, there was real progress and beauty, as the full moon trimmed down to a tiny fingernail sliver, its shaded face barely visible in reflected Earth-light, then brightened against the pitch black of the sky before being dimmed by the rising sun.
And at every stage, it was more lively, more interesting, and infinitely more attractive than the eight-hour-plus speech that GOP leader Kevin McCarthy delivered on the House floor overnight to delay the final House vote on the Build Back Better legislation.
McCarthy added he could wait for Democrats to stop talking. "Keep going," Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, yelled back. "No one is listening."
Just Because It Is So Good
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Finally...
House Democrats passed their roughly $1.75 trillion social and climate spending package on Friday morning, even as Republicans successfully delayed a final vote.
The Senate Better Hurry If they Want President Harris to Sign It
-------------
I Don't Know Whether to Call Kennedy "Senator" or "Obergruppenführer"
-------------
Remember This? The Oil Companies Hope You Don't
-------------
It's Like a Scene From a Movie
An unvaccinated woman awoke from a lengthy coma she entered after contracting COVID-19 on the same day her family was set to terminate her life support.
Bettina Lerman, 69, had been on a ventilator at Maine Medical Center in Portland for more than a month when her son Andrew Lerman and other relatives made the heartbreaking decision. The family had been told she’d suffered “irreversible damage” from the disease, reported CNN.
“They told us, ‘Your mother is never going to wake up,’” Andrew Lerman told The Washington Post on Thursday. “It was the end of the line.”
Family members planned a funeral and scheduled the shutdown of life support on Oct. 29.
With just hours to go, a doctor called Lerman with the stunning news his mom had woken up.
Bettina Then Said, "You Were About to Do What???" (Not Really)
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As An Old Guy, I Want More Roads, Fewer Bike Lanes
The U.S. Transportation Department said Friday it was awarding nearly $1 billion in infrastructure grants as the Biden administration prepares to dramatically boost funding on the nation's roads, bridges, rail, transit and other projects.
The grants under the Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity (RAISE) program are going to 90 projects in 47 states, the District of Columbia and Guam, to rebuild roads and add rail lines -- but also create new green space, new trails, bike lanes and safer streets for pedestrians.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said the department had received a "a ten-to-one ratio of requests to available dollars" for the grants.
Seattle will receive $20 million to reconstruct a 1.1-mile road segment and will also add a bike lane. Washington County, Oregon will receive $12.2 million for a 15-mile trail.
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